USG ELECTION DISASTER: Posts still vacant day before election

A day before Rose Hill’s USG voting period is set to begin, five senate positions aren’t simply uncontested — they are completely without candidates, according to data released by USG.

Seven of the nine executive board races are uncontested, including executive president and executive vice president.

The gaping holes in this year’s election may largely be credited to USG’s mass exodus of experience — seven students who were eligible to apply for reelection declined to do so, signaling a new low for interest in student government at Rose Hill.

Thanks to an uncontested race, Ashley Domagola and Nicholas Sawicki, both juniors, will soon become USG’s next executive president and executive vice president, respectively. (In fairness, even if this race were contested, Fordham Daily would endorse this ticket.)

Competition for USG’s executive ticket seems to flip-flop each year.

Current president Nevin Kulangara defeated his opposition last year. President Aileen Reynolds sailed to an uncontested victory in 2013, and President Stephen Erdman narrowly defeated his opponent in 2012.

This is it: Fordham Daily’s last post! Breathe a sigh of relief, shed a tear — I’ll be doing both. I’ll always remember what my dad, a proud Fordham grad with a philosophy degree, told me just before we parted ways in front of Queen’s Court — the building he had inhabited some 30 years earlier — on a […]